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No, they're not boys. But
Madison soccer team endures criticism because players have
short hairNote: Madison parents,
coaches and some fans are really homophobic Trumpsters and
probably are faith-based bigots as well. How cruel can these
adults be? Trash talk from trashy people. If anyone has
their names and background information on their bigotry,
we'd be happy to expose them here. Contact
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When Mira Wilde was 8 years old, she wanted to cut her
hair like one of her idols, Ellen DeGeneres. So she did.

Fast forward two years, Mira, now 10, still has short
hair  though now she's mimicking a new idol, Abby
Wambach, the 2015 World Cup soccer champion and two-time
Olympic gold medalist.

About a year and a half ago, Stella Blau cut her hair
short, too. Stella, now 11, also wanted to look like
Wambach, as well as another idol, U.S. women's national team
midfielder Megan Rapinoe.

Adah Lacocque, now 10, was only four when she cut hers,
mostly because she didn't want to get yogurt in it or deal
with the tangles. Now, it's part of her identity.

All three play soccer on a Madison girls U-11 club team,
the 56ers. What has taken the girls, their parents, even
their coach by surprise is the impact of that style
choice.

They've been ridiculed by opposing parents, coaches, even
referees, all of whom refused to accept that they were not
boys. At tournaments, they have been asked to prove their
gender, and were told they didn't deserve medals.

But instead of giving in and growing their hair out, the
girls, with the help of their parents, coach and soccer
club, are sticking with each other  and with their
look. After a summer hiatus, they're preparing for a new
season beginning in September.

Molly Duffy, coach of the team the last two years,
remembers holding a meeting at which parents voiced concern
about people commenting on their short-haired daughters. She
took it with a grain of salt.

"I thought this honestly can't really happen," Duffy
said. "I didn't take their warning as serious as I probably
should have."

One opposing parent went up to some of the girls and
asked their names.

"My daughter responded with 'Stella' and the parent
didn't believe her," said Tom Blau. "My daughter came back
to my wife and just cried."

Blau said it's not uncommon for opposing coaches and
parents to scold them for having boys on the team. They tell
the girls the only reason they win is by cheating.

"People have said they're afraid their daughter is going
to get hurt playing against boys," Blau said. "(Our girls)
are just physical and are playing the sport the way it's
supposed to be played. When we tell a parent on the other
team that they're girls they just say, 'Yeah right.'"

Once, the team went up to receive medals at a tournament,
but didn't get the congratulations that they thought they
deserved. A referee told the girls they didn't deserve to
get medals because they played with boys on the team.

"They say, 'They're too good. They move like boys,'"
Julie Minikel-Lacocque, Adah's mom said. "All these players
have experienced the same discrimination, and I really would
call it that. From teams demanding passports and accusations
of cheating. It's incredibly damaging to the girls."

Duffy said that before a player can be put on a roster or
participate in a tournament, the parent needs to turn in a
birth certificate to verify not only their age, but also
their gender.

Yet at a tournament in the fall season, an opposing coach
came up to Duffy and said it looked like she had boys
playing for her team. Duffy provided the other coach with
the playing cards of the girls, but after that incident,
Duffy went to the parents and asked how they wanted her to
handle the situation going forward.

Ever since then, she and the parents have made it part of
their protocol to go up to parents, coaches and referees
before every game to let them know that the team is made up
of all girls.

Now, if the girls hear complaints, Duffy said, they often
just shrug it off.

"For the lack of better words, my girls are bad ass,"
Duffy said. "They're faced with this kind of situation and
they take on the attitude of: 'You know what, we got this.'
They are confident in what they do."

In June, the 56ers were touched by the story of a
Nebraska girl whose youth soccer team claimed it was
disqualified from a tournament because organizers thought
she was a boy. The girl, Mili Hernandez, just wanted to have
short hair like Wambach.

The incident caught national media attention, including
Wambach's and former USWNT soccer star Mia Hamm's, who both
spoke out publicly on the matter.

The 56ers sent letters to Hernandez with "be you" written
all over.

"The girls all wrote letters with underlying tones of
just be you," Duffy said. "They let her know they had her
back and said 'Hey, you be you. We support you from
Wisconsin."

The team took it one step further and created "Sixer
Strong" T- shirts to remind everyone that "power doesn't
come from a haircut, but from a passion for the game as well
as the freedom to be who you are." The front of the shirts
says "Try and keep up," with a reference to the Title IX ban
on discrimination.

Other coaches heard about the shirts and wanted them for
their teams. Eventually, about 700 were ordered across the
different teams under the 56ers umbrella.

1.What's your favorite role you've
ever played?

2.What was it like working with Jodie
Foster on "Panic Room" and who are the actresses you look up
to the most?

Sadly, all entertainment reporters
seem to care about is:

1.Who are you dating?

2.No, but seriously, who are you
dating?

3.C'mon, tell us who you're
dating!

A person can only take so many
questions about Robert Pattinson, am I right?

But this is just the way it is for
most actresses. While Stewart's male costars get insightful
interview questions about career and craft, women are forced
to talk about their latest hairstyle and walk the "manicure
runway"  yep, that's a real thing.

But! In a new skit from Funny or Die,
Kristen Stewart gets a little revenge by turning these
sexist interview questions on Jesse Eisenberg, her costar in
"American Ultra." (Suggetion: Watch the whole video
before reading on.)

2:47

In the hilarious video, Jesse and
Kristen sit down to interview each other, only to find out
they've been given each other's question cards.

Kristine: Do you have any
favorite designers?

Stewart moves on to the next question,
a classic:

"Are you pregnant, though?

EIsenberg, shockingly, is not with
child.

And, of course, no interview of a
Hollywood actress would be complete without at least one
mention of breasts:

Kristine: Do you have a favorite
boob?

Finally, Eisenberg's had
enough.

"I just feel like a lot of the
questions you're asking me feel like they're ... not about
the movie," he says.

Exactly!

Eisenberg: Now I know what it
feels like to be a cwoman.

There's a difference between trying to
humanize an actress and reducing her to the most basic of
female stereotypes.

Sticking only to questions about the
movie or her career could probably get a little boring, but
how about we show a little creativity and insight? How about
we go a little deeper than what dress she's wearing or
whether she feels like her biological clock is
ticking?

Or, at the very least, how about we
start subjecting men to the same kinds of vapid interviews
women have endured for so long?

Female Software
Engineer 'Too Pretty'? Isis Wenger Faces Heavy CriticismAccording to some social media users, female software
engineer Isis Wenger is too pretty to be a real
engineer. It all started with an advertisement by OneLogin,
a company responsible for creating the software of the same
name that allows users to safely enter all web applications
from a smartphone or tablet, where we see an attractive
engineer, Isis Wenger, sporting a smile alongside the
caption: My team is great. Everyone is smart, creative
and hilarious.

According to a report from Yahoo!, the
ad was met with heavy criticism and negative comments from
social media users.

Im curious people with
brains find this ad remotely plausible and if women in
particular buy this image of what a female software engineer
looks like. one person wrote. What does a female
software engineer look like? another said.If
their intention is to attract more women then it would have
been better to choose a picture with a warm, friendly smile
rather than a sexy smirk, a Facebook user posted in
the comments section.